Chris Shively
SVP, Commercial Strategy
Victor, Idaho, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Shively is a commercial strategy and business development leader with 13 years of experience scaling sales, customer success, and data-driven go-to-market operations across startups and enterprise media. Currently SVP, Commercial Strategy at Greeter, he blends field-first selling with product sensibility to turn storefront displays and dynamic content into measurable traffic and revenue drivers. His background ranges from leading global business development at true[X] through multiple VP roles at Monks to early-stage investing and advising for Techstars companies, showing a fluency in both growth-stage operations and venture-backed product models. Uncommon for a commercial executive, Chris is also a hands-on backend engineer and programming-language enthusiast who has contributed compiler optimization work to the Factor language, signaling deep technical literacy. He holds an MBA from UC San Diego and completed leadership coursework at Harvard Business School, pairing formal strategy training with frontline execution. Based in Victor, Idaho, he prefers being in the field and learning markets intimately before closing complex, cross-functional deals.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoManageMentor Certificate: Leading The Business, Business Administration and Management, General, ManageMentor Certificate: Leading The Business, Business Administration and Management, General at Harvard Business School
English, German, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
ssa10
compiler-optimization10
compiler-design10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
factor/factor
Dec 2012 - Dec 2012
Factor programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 3 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the compiler's code generation and optimization phases, specifically related to the SSA (Static Single Assignment) form. Their work involved fixing issues related to live-range analysis, handling parallel copies, and ensuring proper leader mappings for vregs after SSA destruction. The commits demonstrate deep understanding of compiler internals and optimization techniques. The user also addressed circular dependency issues within the compiler's modules.
programming-languagefactorstackconcatenative
ajvondrak/git-topics
Jul 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 releases, 49 commits, 6 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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